Saturday, May 14, 2016

Sphinx Singer 127, another Mother's Day machine.

Several years ago, early in my vintage sewing machine obsessession hobby, I picked up a neat 1962 White sewing machine from a Craigslist ad on Mother's Day. I guess maybe we started a tradition, because I was due to collect a new treadle and it worked out that the day I could go pick it up was once again Mother's Day.

Isn't she a beauty? The serial number dates her to 1928, and the ornate decals sure fit the Flapper era. Beautiful cabinet too, although the top will need some TLC.

This is a vibrating shuttle machine, it has that bullet shaped shuttle with the bobbin that looks like a little bar, rather than a round bobbin. I found the VS intimidating for a long time, because it looked so different that a round bobbin. But once I got my Davis NVF I had to get over it, and I got over it quickly. Basically, it's a bobbin. You wind it on the machine. Then you have to hold it with the thread coming off a certain way and you put it in the shuttle, put the shuttle in the machine. You close the cover plate and you sew. No real learning curve, it's just a different way of holding the bottom thread to create a lockstitch with the top thread.

Treadle On has some great info that helped me get over the nerves of the new system: